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IME stands for Independent Medical Examination.

If you practice workers’ compensation law and represent injured workers, then it will not take long before you need to advise a client on light duty.

Many injured workers choose a “wait and see” approach when determining whether they need to file something with the employer or the insurance company.

“Am I getting everything from the workers’ compensation insurance company I am supposed to? ”

Any time someone is injured at work, the first thing you need to do is report the injury to your employer. This notice of injury may be reported to the employer verbally or in writing.

Just because you reported the injury at work to your employer, this does not mean that they have taken the appropriate actions to address the possible benefits owed for the work injury.

One option for the injured work is to settle the claim via a compromise settlement agreement.

Ultimately, every time you attempt to negotiate settlement of a claim you will reach a point where one side of the other stops.

This medical compensation provide to the medical provide as the injured worker receives the medical treatment from the medical provider.

In many of these situations I hear from the injured worker that everything was going okay until the claims adjuster stopped returning phone calls and responding to emails.